Reusable software components need well-defined interfaces, rigorously and completely documented features, and a design amenable both to reuse and to formal verification; all these...
XML information retrieval (XML-IR) systems aim to provide users with highly exhaustive and highly specific results. To interact with XML-IR systems, users must express both their ...
Forming effective coalitions is a major research challenge in AI and multi-agent systems (MAS). Coalition Structure Generation (CSG) involves partitioning a set of agents into coa...
Due to their nature, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems are subject to a wide range of security issues. In this paper, we focus on a specific security property, called the root authenticit...
Many tools have been constructed using different formal methods to process various parts of a language specification (e.g., scanner generators, parser generators and compiler gene...